How to Use fruit bat in a Sentence
fruit bat
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The men in the village often hunted larger fruit bats with roughly foot-long wingspans, called little collared fruit bats—one of only three bat species thought to carry the Ebola virus.
— Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015 -
In a 2016 study of Egyptian fruit bats, researchers recorded the bats for months and used a voice recognition program to analyze thousands of different sounds.
— Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024 -
African fruit bats are the reservoir hosts of the virus, the CDC said.
— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023 -
That’s what brought Rodrigues fruit bats to the Safari Park.
— John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017 -
The list includes birds, mussels, a fruit bat, a fish, and a flower.
— Sara Tabin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021 -
The greater short-nosed fruit bat can be found in the tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia.
— Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2015 -
Things can get pretty loud in Egyptian fruit bat colonies.
— Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017 -
But Rodrigues fruit bats are small, about 14 inches long as adults.
— John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017 -
Richard Dolbeer was once the man to call if millions of blackbirds or fruit bats were ravaging your fields.
— Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 24 Jan. 2020 -
The Indian flying fox, one of more than 1,100 species of bats, is also known as the giant fruit bat.
— Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2014 -
It was already known that the reptiles hang from the ceiling at the cave entrance and catch Jamaican fruit bats that roost inside.
— National Geographic, 3 June 2017 -
People have also been told to avoid abandoned wells, as fruit bats eat dates from palm trees, and sometimes nest in wells.
— Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 28 May 2018 -
During the 2018 Nipah outbreak, fruit bats from the same area tested positive for the virus.
— Reuters, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023 -
The researchers captured Egyptian fruit bat mothers and pups from a cave just outside Tel Aviv.
— New York Times, 4 Dec. 2021 -
The tour begins with the butterflies, migrates to fruit bats and from there to see exotic birds and their trainers.
— Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018 -
Samoan fruit bats are native to the National Park of American Samoa.
— Allen Kim, CNN, 12 Jan. 2020 -
Outbreaks of Marburg are thought to be sparked when the virus jumps to humans from animals, likely fruit bats.
— Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2023 -
Back in 2011, elephants enjoyed their Halloween treats, as did the fruit bats, who munched on the pumpkins while hanging upside down.
— Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 31 Oct. 2019 -
But no direct test had ever been performed in a highly social setting, such as in a fruit bat colony.
— Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023 -
It was first identified in pigs in Malaysia and Singapore in the late 1980s, though its natural reservoir is fruit bats.
— Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 12 Jan. 2024 -
It was first identified in pigs in Malaysia and Singapore in the late 1980s, though its natural reservoir is fruit bats.
— Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 10 Nov. 2023 -
In 1967 scientists became ill after working with African green monkey tissue; the African fruit bat is the host.
— Alberto Lucas LÓpez, National Geographic, 17 June 2021 -
With previous outbreaks, fruit bats have been identified as the hosts of the Marburg virus, from which the virus is then transmitted to people.
— Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023 -
The virus is spread to humans who have direct contact with animals that are infected, like fruit bats or pigs.
— Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 22 May 2018 -
The virus, rarely detected in humans, is endemic among the African region’s jumbo-sized fruit bats.
— David Willman and Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023 -
The hunters were looking for roosting bats, mainly fruit bats and flying foxes—for them, a lucrative prize that can be shipped to villages in the north as part of the bushmeat trade.
— Jim Morrison, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2018 -
In fact, a recent study of bat ear bones suggests that fruit bats never had the ability to echolocate, which would be a vote in favor of the flight-first theory.
— Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2017 -
The animal host of Ebola is widely believed to be the fruit bat, although scientists haven’t been able to confirm this.
— Julia Belluz, Vox, 11 May 2018 -
As early as 2005, Nature published a piece suggesting fruit bats could act as reservoirs for the deadly virus.
— Merlin Tuttle, Slate Magazine, 9 May 2017 -
The Marburg virus, which originates in fruit bats, was first detected in 1967 among people who had been exposed to African green monkeys.
— Aria Bendix, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2023
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